Even with very limited expertise in mathematics, many of us know that a recurring decimal is one that repeats itself forever. Regretably, we here in Antigua and Barbuda are again faced with a vexing ...

A rational number can be written exactly in the form \(\frac{a}{b}\), where 𝑎 and 𝑏 are integers, while an irrational number cannot.

WHILE experimenting with a system of counting by twelves, 1 suddenly I came upon a series of numbers that behaved in the most extraordinary way. Discovery followed discovery. One day the whole ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

1/3 can be written as 0.33333… (with a string of 3s going on forever) and 4/9 can be written as 0.44444… . We call these recurring decimals. Use a calculator to see what 1/11, 2/11 and 3/11 are as ...